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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: edar on January 16, 2013, 07:37 pm

Title: my mate wants to sell on sr but also want to know how to set up an .onion site
Post by: edar on January 16, 2013, 07:37 pm
Hello all
Can you help  my mate wants to sell on sr but also wants to know how to set up / register an   .onion site
  he,s got a legit grow shop but likes the idea of the tor network , can he move his regular site over to .onion ? he asked me today and I said I aint got a clue but Id ask on the forums 
Says  he,s been trying to do it for about a week ...stoner  pmsl  & dodgy as ..  kidding   ;D he,s a good lad
Title: Re: my mate wants to sell on sr but also want to know how to set up an .onion site
Post by: angelkiller on January 17, 2013, 05:31 am
Your friend wants to run a Tor Hidden Service.

https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en

Basically, you have a regular web server. Then you install tor on it. And instead of accepting connections from the internet, the web server accepts connections from Tor. If he already has a website set up, it's just a matter of configuration to get it working over Tor.
Title: Re: my mate wants to sell on sr but also want to know how to set up an .onion site
Post by: edar on January 17, 2013, 09:40 am
Your friend wants to run a Tor Hidden Service.

https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en

Basically, you have a regular web server. Then you install tor on it. And instead of accepting connections from the internet, the web server accepts connections from Tor. If he already has a website set up, it's just a matter of configuration to get it working over Tor.
yeh thats what I thought    ???                  not     thanks for that man  ;)
Title: Re: my mate wants to sell on sr but also want to know how to set up an .onion site
Post by: Wadozo on January 18, 2013, 03:25 am
Your friend wants to run a Tor Hidden Service.

https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en

Basically, you have a regular web server. Then you install tor on it. And instead of accepting connections from the internet, the web server accepts connections from Tor. If he already has a website set up, it's just a matter of configuration to get it working over Tor.
yeh thats what I thought    ???                  not     thanks for that man  ;)

edar, I found this link I had which I totally forgot about. It details all you need to do to set up a hidden service on the "information underground", the Hidden Web. It goes into great detail about each and every step and will be a perfect start for your friend to achieve his goal. Here's the link -

http://3suaolltfj2xjksb.onion/hiddenwiki/index.php/Hidden_Service_Setup_Guide

Good luck with it all and let me know if you get things up and running some day.

Wadozo.
Title: Re: my mate wants to sell on sr but also want to know how to set up an .onion site
Post by: Wadozo on January 19, 2013, 02:11 pm
I'm sure yesterday you were advertising bitcoins all over your forum profile and now you've suddenly morphed into a host and designer of Onion sites, offering to not only design and build it, but also assist edar in finding someone to host it for him on their network.
If you were to set up and run a Tor Hidden Service to sell drugs, the last thing you would do is leave it in the hands of a complete stranger to run it for you, including setting the site up and hosting it on an ongoing basis. The point of a Hidden Service is to keep things Hidden. the more people that know about it = more of a chance of coming undone and your anonymity being revealed for all to see. DPR doesn't trust others with SR and rightly so. Hence the reason it's so far stayed out of the view from Police and Hackers still looking for it.